My love hath vowed he will forsake me - Campion, Thomas

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⌛ Period → Renaissance

◈ Genre / Form Madrigals

♯ Key E minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SA

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range B3 – E5

¶ Language → English

Measures 16

Texture mixed texture

Parts 2

Instruments SA, Piano

Pages 1

CPDL # 26019

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2012-04-25

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

D4 – E5

Alto

B3 – B4

¶Lyrics / Text

My love hath vowed hee will forsake me And I am already sped. For other promise he did make me When he had my maidenhead. If such danger be in playing And sport must to earnest turn, I will go no more a-maying. Had I foreseen what is ensued, And what now with pain I prove, Unhappy then I had eschewed This unkind event of love. Maids foreknow their own undoing, But fear naught till all is done, When a man alone is wooing. Dissembling wretch to gain thy pleasure! What didst thou not vow and swear? So didst thou rob me of the treasure Which so long I held so dear. Now thou prov’st to me a stranger, Such is the vile guise of men, When a woman is in danger. That heart is nearest to misfortune That will trust a feigned tongue. When flatt’ring men our loves importune, They intend us deepest wrong. If this shame of loves betraying, But this once I cleanly shun, I will go no more amaying.

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